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Our
Mission is to:
- Right A Terrible Wrong
- Prevent the End of Something
Good
- Make the World a Better
Place
- Increase the quality of
life
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It Is
A Fact
One out of every 75 American males
(men & boys) is in prison. The
number has increased by 3% since last
year.
There are 3,033,321 prisoners today
in the United States, This does not
account for the millions who have served
terms but now retain the title of “felon”
and are to some degree under supervision
of the prison system. The number jumps
to nearly 7 million when you count
all those on probation.
This is a tremendous financial drain
on our economy with a cost over $90,999,630,000
per year! And, this is only an estimate!
It seems that everything we want to
do now is either illegal, immoral or
fattening, Aa the story goes.
There must be some truth to it. Currently
one of every 142 U.S. residents is
locked away… nearly an 8-fold increase
in just a couple of years. Our nation
has a larger prisoner population than
Russia. With 5 percent of the world’s
population, we have 25 percent of the
prisoners! When you consider the number
of people on probation or parole, one
in every 32 people in the country is
involved.
Something is wrong. Our tendency to
lock more people away as a viable solution
to our problems should not be shrugged
off. The present system is NOT working.
See on the net: Bureau
of Justice Statistics.
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MAKE YOUR DONATION
Every dollar — $1 or $1,000,
it's up to you — helps us work for:
- Re-institution parole;
- Toward fairness and
justice;
- For effective advocacy for accused;
- Competent legal representation;
- Meaningful changes in
sentencing law.
Plainly stated, we can't do it without you.
We need your help. We can't help you or your loved
ones, without it. Don't give what you don't have and
don't give what you
don't want.
Click
the donate button below to donate online securely.
Or if you'd rather, send a check to:
The
Paraclete Foundation
6476 Friars Road, Suite 106
San Diego, CA 92108
Thank
you for your help!
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We believe that the Mandatory Sentencing
practice of the Federal Judicial System
is wrong. We believe that the unforgiving
practice of not allowing for Parole
is wrong. We believe that warehousing
of inmates with minimal facilities
for retraining, rehabilitation, education
is wrong. We what to make a difference.
We want to educate policy makers to
the benefits of change and the evil
of the current practices.
We strongly fear that the current
policies of the Criminal Justice system
speaks to the deterioration of our
American Way of life, absent the fundamental
Judeo-Christian ethos of forgiveness.
We work to prevent the continuing moral
and ethical decline of our system.
We want to make the World a better
place. We what to minimize crime through
education and strengthening of our
religious underpinning. We want to
assure the children of incarcerated
parents that they do not have to suffer
the separation and accompanying deprivation
of having a parent in prison alone.
We want to our system to show a human
side driven by concern for our fellow
citizens, the offended, the offenders,
the tax payer.
We want to increase the quality of
life of all our neighbors with higher
standards of conduct toward the incarcerated,
laws that are administered fairly and
evenly with total impartiality. We
want everyone to live in a community
free of crime and feel that through
education, medical treatment and work
we can realize these ends.
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